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The Daily Texture for 12/04/2015​December Moon

Since my dark texture "Woodsmoke" was so popular, I thought I'd create another dark one, this one with some warmer tones. I captured this photo of a doe peering at me from within the dark cover of the woods, and because I was shooting with a 500mm from my car, and she was right beside the road, there was no way I could even get her whole head in the photo. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this picture...and when I finished Today's Daily Texture, I knew! I used the texture as a background, masking away her original background in Topaz PhotoFXLab. Then I duplicated the texture layer twice, placing both on top. The first layer was set to multiply at 30% and the second was set to soft light at 60%. This gave her a bit more drama. After merging, I brightened up just the highlight in her eye to bring the viewer's focus to that area of the final image.

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